At 4:44 PM -0700 6/11/00, Lizard wrote:
>At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote:
>>Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC
>>chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or
>>moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business.
>
>Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't Bill just close up
>shop? He's got fifty+ billion dollars -- he couldn't spend it all in
>his lifetime if he tried. So why doesn't he just pull a John Galt
>and say, "Fine. I hereby close down Microsoft. We're out of
>business. No more monopoly. Have fun. I'm going to Disneyworld."
Many reasons this cannot happen. In fact, I realize how stupid it is
to even waste time listing them.
Have a nice day.
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>
>I'm assuming it's not that simple, that you can't just shut the
>doors and throw away the key. Can anyone confirm this?
That's right, it's not that simple.
Have a nice day.
--Tim May
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